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75 years later, Japanese man recalls bitter internment in US

by Associated Press
| August 31, 2020 8:27 PM

TOKYO (AP) — When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, the first thing Hidekazu Tamura, a Japanese American living in California, thought was, “I’ll be killed at the hands of my fellow Americans.” It wouldn't be the last time he felt that way.

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